Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1966 November 30.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....
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Jordan, Pascual, 1902-1980
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Universität Berlin.
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Yukawa, Hideki, 1907-1981
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